How To Use Rectitude In A Sentence

Is there another group that seeks the path of rectitude and moderation with the same fervor?
That doesn't sound at all like a person convinced of his own rectitude.
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
It also gives a glow of correctitude. Times, Sunday Times
A judge shall behave with dignity, correctitude and sensitiveness towards the public interest, in his social life.

They decided last year that he was an un-electable oddball and national embarrassment - struggling to exude the requisite correctitude to be considered aldermanic, much less prime ministerial.
I dare say you're in good company - good to a fault if correctitude engenders a kind of exclusivity.
It evinces an overdiminished but nevertheless inexpugnable desire for moral as well as ethical rectitude.
Yet Smith also saw that the roots of ‘this frugality’ ran much deeper than Calvinist cant or even moral rectitude.
From being merely awkward, he at last became uncouth; but from the natural goodness of his heart, the nearest to him soon lost sight of his ungentleness from the rectitude of his intentions, and, to parody the poet, saw his deportment in his feelings. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
Each one of those models of moral rectitude is a vivid vignette. Times, Sunday Times
The exhortation is sustained by the assurance of God's essential rectitude in that providential government which provides perpetual blessings for the good, and perpetual misery for the wicked. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Another curious conflict between political correctitude and traditional teachings was illuminated by the poster.
This, despite their assertions of moral rectitude, implies that it is hard to make an informed judgment on an issue such as this with so much disinformation flying around.
Of these moral rules or laws, to which men generally refer, and by which they judge of the rectitude or pravity of their actions, there seem to me to be three sorts, with their three different enforcements, or rewards and punishments. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
We know that he has the moral rectitude to stand up to the vilest attacks and pressure.
My next-door neighbour is a judgmental and patronising individual who sees himself and his family as an example to my ed of moral rectitude. Times, Sunday Times
In simplicity, in gentleness, in rectitude, in delicacy of mind, and in all the particulars of what may be termed complexional harmony and healthiness of nature, -- in these they are as much twins as in birth and feature. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
We also stand for fiscal rectitude and law and order.
I am mired in intangibles which impeccably intermesh with static neurones still firing blanks ...there is no disorientation quite like the bared walls of blunted rectitude Archive 2009-03-01
When I pull into his street, I wonder whether I have take a wrong turn: The gabled homes are tidy and uniform, and the neighborhood exudes an air of suburban rectitude. Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
There has been no catharsis of moral or strategic rectitude.
They will, however, be loath to permit deviant minorities to wander from widely acknowledged paths of rectitude.
If more nudity is the conduit by which these ends are achieved, then so be it, and to hell with moral rectitude.
The nature of this correctitude is most wholly dependant upon the constitution of the witness.
They looked upon religious correctitude as being of the utmost importance, and Halley's careful demeanor during the 1690s had the end result that he was successful in obtaining appointment to the Savilian Chair of Geometry in 1704.
He broke every rule of political correctitude that they had striven to impose on a nation with an international reputation for calling a spade a shovel.
The emphasis here is on exemplary, individual acts of moral protest, not on ideological rectitude.
Never sanctimonious or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude.
If there be institutions or measures inconsistent with immutable rectitude, they are fostered only under the ban of a righteous God; they inwrap the germs of their own harvest of shame, disorder, vice, and wretchedness; nay, their very prosperity is but the verdure and blossoming which shall mature the apples of Sodom. The American Union Speaker
A valid passbook involved a strict correctitude of job description and hours, it had to be current and regularly renewed.
Accordingly some aspects of domestic rectitude predated the cult of domesticity.
Since the will is the rational appetite, when the rectitude of the reason which is called truth is imprinted on the will on account of its nighness to the reason, this imprint retains the name of truth; and hence it is that justice sometimes goes by the name of truth. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
This is surprising because Tamil Nadu, though small, is respected for the intellectual strength, political sagacity, legal acumen and moral rectitude of its people.
What all this will do for President Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election chances is anyone's guess, and perhaps a strategy that appeals to Gallic class envy in the name of Teutonic fiscal rectitude will work. French Tax Attack
It is therefore about American self-respect, rightness, and a sense of moral rectitude.
There was a moral tone to the school, an assumption of rectitude and honor I swallowed from the very start.
In recent years, Japan, once a model of fiscal rectitude, spent wildly on public works projects in an effort to stimulate the economy.
Now rectitude of judgment is twofold: first, on account of perfect use of reason, secondly, on account of a certain connaturality with the matter about which one has to judge. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Scotland is a deeply divided society: Catholic versus Protestant, highlander against lowlander, urban versus rural, Gaelic versus Anglophone, rectitude versus licence, welfare dependents versus a strong entrepreneurial tradition. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Yet by the 19th Century, the Brits were renowned for almost painful ‘Victorian’ rectitude and lawfulness.
Reply Obj. 1: Since the will is the rational appetite, when the rectitude of the reason which is called truth is imprinted on the will on account of its nighness to the reason, this imprint retains the name of truth; and hence it is that justice sometimes goes by the name of truth. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
An instrumental demonstration of rectitude, drawn by Amelia Amelia after sketch by Iacopo Mariano Taccola, Sienese engineer and mentor to Francesco di Giorgio. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
An austere man of unquestioned moral rectitude, Nava inspired deep devotion in those who worked for him.
In simplicity, in gentleness, in rectitude, in delicacy of mind, and in all the particulars of what may be termed complexional harmony and healthiness of nature, ” in these they are as much twins as in birth and feature. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
The orthodoxies of fiscal rectitude and monetary restraint are no more.
Well, Jimmy was a Southern Baptist and the nation was embarked upon an epoch of fierce moral rectitude.
It brings a whole new meaning to moral rectitude.
Germany will have to choose between maintaining fiscal rectitude or enabling the rescue of the highly indebted economies. Times, Sunday Times
The cavalryman was a foot shorter than Sharpe, but he seemed to compensate for his lack of height with a look of Cromwellian fervour and rectitude. Sharpe's Gold
After all, as a believer in the ‘European destiny’ (yes, they really do talk like that) your rectitude is, by definition, unquestioned.
He passed the plate after the sermon, and his rectitude shone out oleaginously on every line of his face. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life
It seems many leave all semblance of moral rectitude behind on entering politics. Times, Sunday Times
If nothing else, I knew that I would enjoy the spectacle of it uncomfortably squirming through the minefields of its own institutional political correctitude.
She is a model of rectitude.
However they range from the model of rectitude to the reprobate, from the intellectual to the ignorant, we vary more.
This belief, combined with beliefs about the moral rectitude of the promiser, give the promisee a sound reason to believe that the promiser will keep her promise. Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych
Losing that badge of fiscal rectitude really would be seismic. Times, Sunday Times
She's high-strung, suspicious and full of moral rectitude.
Is there another group that seeks the path of rectitude and moderation with the same fervor?
“[W] e, as right-thinking members of society, should permit him to continue in the path of rectitude rather than throw him back into a life of shame or crime” by revealing hispast. The Volokh Conspiracy » Speech Restrictions Aimed at Making Sure People Act in “Right-Thinking” Ways
He now seems more than ever convinced of his own rectitude, more certain that his words and actions are necessarily benevolent.
He that, with Archelaus, shall lay it down as a principle, that right and wrong, honest and dishonest, are defined only by laws, and not by nature, will have other measures of moral rectitude and pravity, than those who take it for granted that we are under obligations antecedent to all human constitutions. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
So here we/they are worshiping at - again in all inner rectitude - stones set down by one of their cruelest arch-nemeses for his own self-glorification and vanity and also as a sop (which many since have swallowed) to keep the people otherwise occupied, rather than in revolt. Robert Eisenman: The Greatest "Heritage Site" of All
Then there was Marta from Spartanburg, who was fleeing the dead hand of middle-class rectitude.
If moral rectitude and marital fidelity are requirements of those who play for England one can see a future when a schoolboy team will represent the country. Times, Sunday Times
In class they would study hard; in the dorms they would be models of rectitude and self-discipline.
Thanks so much for the links to the WSJ story pumping up the speculatory frenzy over the conference call at the center of Blagopaylooza (my "Name the Scandal" entry, btw) and the Politico "story" about that upright paragon of moral rectitude David Vitter's plan to call Bill to testify at Hillary's confirmation hearing. Where Are You, Angry Left?
An intimidating squad of fearless men whose job it is to maintain the moral rectitude of the country by sniffing out depravity at source. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
One excellent way to forget it is to focus with righteous rectitude on the evils of others while focusing on the nobility of oneself.
It was presented as a hymn to fiscal rectitude. Times, Sunday Times
We are still trying to use our moral rectitude, but that mote is pretty obvious at present, and the values are, to be honest, quite empty. Discourse.net: The Moral High Ground
That is the quality that lends Baise-Moi a weird moral rectitude.
And if they did not know it - if they were genuinely convinced of their own rectitude - can we call them evil?
In the nation's cultural wars, he said, a leftist political correctitude based on anti-intellectual premises had been replaced by a rightist one.
Often, to stress the moral as well as legal rectitude of the proceedings, a minister would go round when the notices were read out in English to threaten the people with hellfire in Gaelic if they showed any disobedience.
Wherever possible, cloak yourself in rectitude.
It was not an age distinguished by its wrist-slapping correctitude over punctuation.
There were uncomfortable saints in Cadfael's hagiology, whom he personally would have consigned to a less reverend status, but whose aggravating rectitude he could not deny. The Holy Thief
Fiscal rectitude is far from enough. Times, Sunday Times
Certes, such is the unhappy condition of sinful nature, that not merely in acts that are morally doubtful it adopts the worse conclusion; but often it depraves by iniquitous subversion those which have the appearance of rectitude. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
Alexander is a man of unquestioned moral rectitude.
Yet suspicion of other people's culinary rectitude, along with the practicality of an earth sign, helps make well-adjusted Virgoans splendid cooks.
Suffering does not necessarily confer saintliness or rectitude.
How to explain this unbending sense of rectitude?
Old friends celebrated our defeat and the return to normalcy with a nauseating moral rectitude.
He has, by contrast, a fairly high opinion of his own expertise and moral rectitude. Times, Sunday Times
He projected an unpretentious, open image, and his reputation for moral rectitude became a crucial asset for a nation still shocked by the Watergate scandal.
The ‘devoting’ of the people to God was a demonstration of the divine rectitude and justice.
It's a term that probably would be used by proponents of political correctitude.
He stuck to sound money and fiscal rectitude, raised taxes and cut spending. Times, Sunday Times
For since bones afford not only rectitude and stability but figure unto the body, it is no impossible physiognomy to conjecture at fleshy appendencies, and after what shape the muscles and carnous parts might hang in their full consistencies. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Well, Jimmy was a Southern Baptist and the nation was embarked upon an epoch of fierce moral rectitude.

How To Use Rectitude In A Sentence

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